Ashtray for smoker&#39;s use



Jan. 31, 1939. D, LAZARDES 2,145?

ASHTRAY FOR SMOKER'S USE Filed Dec. 21, l956 lNVENTOR.

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Patented Jan. 31, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application December 21, 1936, Serial No. 117,076 In Great Britain August 10, 1936 1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in ash trays for smokers use.

The object of my invention is to provide an ash tray intended more particularly for use when smoking cigarettes or cigars in which the tobacco ash can be deposited in the container in the usual way but having incorporated therewith an extinguishing device by means of which a nearly finished cigarette or cigar can be readi-- 1y extinguished, and the stump or end so extinguished dropped by a simple manipulation of the extinguishing device into the container, whereby the objectionable smoulder and smell from a burning cigarette or cigar end is avoided.

The annexed drawing illustrates examples of construction of the invention.

Fig. 1 is a plan view of one form of the ash tray comprising the extinguishing device.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is an end elevation of an ash tray suitable for use in cinemas or the like.

In the drawing like parts are designated by the same reference letters in the constructions illustrated.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 3:

My improved ash tray comprises a receptacle a of any suitable shape having a removable horizontal frame a constructed of metal or other suitable material and supported for instance by a flange or flanges b or the like on the rim of the receptacle.

This frame has an opening or a number of openings 11 through which ash from a cigarette, cigar or the like during smoking of the same may be dropped direct into the receptacle. Incorporated with the frame a is the extinguishing device consisting of a block e of metal or other substance having a vertical channel or bore 7 of suitable cross-section which may be restricted in diameter midway as shown at g in Fig. 2 and being of a diameter suflicient for the insertion of a cigar or cigarette end.

The block 6 normally lies over a solid portion h of a plate 2 carried by depending members 7 of the frame and parallel to and below the latter, this plate being, except for said solid portion, open or provided with openings k.

The bottom surface of the block when in the normal position is in close and practically airtight connection with said solid portion 11. of the plate 2' so this portion then forms a bottom for the bore in the block which thus becomes a cup which owing to the depth of the block is relatively deep.

As no air can enter at the bottom of the cup if a burning cirgarette or cigar end is dropped therein lack of sufficient air in the bottom of the cup will cause the cigarette or cigar end to be practically immediately extinguished, lthis assisted by the restricted diameter g of the bore.

The block is slidably mounted so that it can be moved by hand in a horizontal plane so that it can be removed from its normal position over the solid portion of the plate, and come above the opening of the plate, whereupon the extinguished cigarette or cigar end will drop into the receptacle.

A convenient method of guiding the block in its movement is to provide the block with a lug or sleeve 1 on opposite side walls embracing parallel horizontal guide rods n, these sleeves being for instance soldered to bands m bent round the block mounted between the frame a and the plate 2', springs u, operating by expansion or contraction accordingly as the block e is slid in one direction or the other, being provided on these rods 11 and normally maintaining the block a over the solid portion h of the plate 2, so that when the block e is moved to bring the block over either of the openings 70 of the plate to discharge the cigarette end into the receptacle, these springs automatically return the block to its normal position when the user releases the block.

The upper part of the block may project above the frame as shown at p to allow of easily taking hold of same in order to manipulate it, or other means may be provided for this purpose.

The circular or like shaped container and frame as shown in Figs. 1 to 3 is suitable for large ash trays for table use but an oblong receptacle is more suitable and convenient for mounting in motor cars or in cinemas.

Fig, 4 shows in end view an oblong ash tray in which the container a is provided with a spring clip or the like b by which it can be attached to the back of a chair or the like.

In this construction the block e is identical to that shown in Figs. 1 to 3 and is slidable on guide rods n carried by a depending frame against springs mounted on the guide rods in the same manner as described with reference to Figs. 1 to 3 like reference letters indicating the same parts.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1s:

An ash tray for smokers use comprising an ash receptacle, a removable frame within said receptacle, a horizontal slidable block having a vertical bore therethrough of gradually decreasing means.

ble block in position over the masking means and adapted to permit said block to be shifted to position over either of the openings of the mask- DIMOPI-ION LAZARIDES. 

